concerned they are on the wrong side of history which is why there is talk about changing immigration law, for example, and you have republicans pushing to find new ways to reach new constituencies and deal with the demographic problems that the republican party has. >> should he have been reaching out to the republicans, george will? >> well, the post partisan obama of 2008 gave his inaugural speech in 2009 and a couple weeks later passed the stimulus bill with no republican votes because it was simply a wish list of 30 years of democratic longing so i think it was a fairly perishable moment. to me, martha, the emblematic sentence from the speech was this "we reject the belief that america must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future." president lives in a parallel universe where a dollar spent on "a" can be spent on "b." no choices involved. for all the so list today, we're not investing in them, we're borrowing from them because conveniently they're not here and can't object. >> well, it wasn't just pre